AltWeeklies Wire
The One AM Radio: Won't You Come Home?new
If Massachusetts native Hrishikesh Hirwayhe couldn’t feel exactly at home in L.A., at least his music stood a good chance.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The One AM Radio
The Budos Band is the Soul of Staten Island ... Seriouslynew
Over the course of two albums, the band has taken hot-weather American soul and balanced it with healthy doses of Ethiopian and Nigerian pop and funk -- balance being the operative word.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
08-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Budos Band
Junior Senior: Great Danes Back in the Housenew
With any luck, Hey Hey My My Yo Yo will re-introduce the duo as an actual band rather than a flash in the pan.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
08-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Junior Senior
Mary Timony: If It Ain't Baroque ...new
Now that Joanna Newsom has arrived atop her dragon to vanquish all who have teased her, Timony can rest a little easier about unwittingly holding court as princess of a limited image bank.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
06-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mary Timony
Morgan Geist + Carl Craignew
Two DJs get things going on the dance floor.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Morgan Geist
Piano Ladynew
Honesty gives Rabdau's music its uniquely bent elegance -- a pop-fond sound that surges like a mood and withers like a memory.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sarah Rabdau
Kimchee Records Turns 10new
Actual 10-year-old kimchee doesn't fare so well.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-03-2007 |
Music
Big in Japannew
The Scissor Sisters are taking their ball and going overseas.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
12-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scissor Sisters
A Whooping Good Timenew
You'd need three billion bowls of other rock bands to match the head-pounding power found in just one bowl of Coughs.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
07-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Coughs
Minimalism with Animal Staminanew
Charlemagne Palestine isn't the father of minimalism, but he's certainly one of its wackier uncles.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
06-14-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charlemagne Palestine
Chips Ahoy!new
The International Chiptune Resistance is a traveling pack of console crackers that make their jams exclusively with hacked Game Boys and Nintendos.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
(And Malcolm in the Middle)new
Matters and Dunaway distinguish themselves from the bulk of the electronic acts that have purists so squeamish -- they are, through and through, a live band.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matters and Dunaway
Kanye the Hard Waynew
When Alain Macklovitch was 13, he was dropping bar mitzvah cash on a pair of turntables and a mixer -- two years later, as DJ A-Trak, he was owning multiple world DJ championships.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A-Trak
The Unfettered Music Festivalnew
The line-up for this year's Terrastock promises festival-goers the chance to get their (musical) freak on.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Terrastock
Solo Soul; Man Oh Mannew
Jamie Lidell's new album, Multiply, is 10 tracks of sweet, pining, shaking, Motown-inspired white-boy soul.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jamie Lidell
